John Entwistle | |
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 Entwistle at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Canada, 1976 | |
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| Birth name | John Alec Entwistle |
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| Born | 9 October 1944 Hammersmith, London, England[1] |
| Died | 27 June 2002 (aged 57) Paradise, Nevada, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1961–2002 |
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John Alec Entwistle (9 October 1944 – 27 June 2002) was an English musician, best known as the bass guitarist for the rock band the Who. Entwistle's music career spanned over four decades. Nicknamed "The Ox" and "Thunderfingers",[2] he was the band's only member with formal musical training and also provided backing and occasional lead vocals. Entwistle was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Who in 1990.
Renowned for his musical abilities, Entwistle is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential rock-and-roll bass guitarists of all time. His instrumental approach utilized pentatonic lead lines and a then-unusual treble-rich sound ("full treble, full volume"). He was voted as the greatest bass guitar player ever in a 2011 Rolling Stone readers' poll[3] and, in 2020, the same magazine ranked him number three in its list of the "50 Greatest Bassists of All Time".[4]
- ^ Humphries, Patrick (2006). "Entwistle, John Alec (1944–2002), songwriter and guitarist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/76977. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "John Entwistle; THE ART OF JOHN ENTWISTLE". The Who. Archived from the original on 3 July 2015.
- ^ "Rolling Stone Readers Pick the Top Ten Bassists of All Time". Rolling Stone. 31 March 2011. Archived from the original on 11 April 2012.
- ^ Bernstein, Jonathan (1 July 2020). "The 50 Greatest Bassists of All Time". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 7 July 2020.